· Private foundation
Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| WESTON-MCEWEN HIGH SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| ATHENA WESTON SCHOOL DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| ATHENA AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA | $2,000 |
| WHITWORTH UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| EASTERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| GRAND CANYON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SOUTHERN OREGON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| ATHENA GEM THEATRE | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OREGON | $2,000 |
| WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA | $1,250 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAthena Mainstreet Association3× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +12%
- GFGEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +15%
- WUWHITWORTH UNIVERSITY2× · 2024–2025 · $5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- GTGEM THEATREone grant, 2019 · $7k
- WHWESTON-MCEWEN HIGH SCHOOL BOOSTER CLUBone grant, 2024 · $4k
- RCRIPON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +30%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Ashland university, guided by our christian heritage, is a comprehensive, private university that provides a transformative learning experience, shaping graduates who work, serve and lead with integrity in their local, national, and global…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Inspired by lutheran scholarly tradition and the liberal arts, augustana provides an education of enduring worth that challenges the intellect, fosters integrity and integrates faith with learning and service in a diverse world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Greenville college d/b/a greenville university empowers students for lives of character and service through a transforming christ-centered education in the liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies.
To expand on the mission statement made on page 1, trinity's core mission values and characteristics emphasize: 1)commitment to the education of women in a particular way through the design and pedagogy of the historic undergraduate…
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Trinity university is an independent co-educational university whose mission is excellence in the interrelated areas of teaching, research and services.
How this is measured
15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 55 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Homer Ip B Watts Memorial Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 5% of income from government
- Pacific University: 5% of income from government
- Willamette University: 4% of income from government
- Linfield University: 4% of income from government
- George Fox University: 3% of income from government
How this is measured
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